AxlsMainMan

Vacation - Alright for $4 Tuesday, but on the whole just as corny and half-assed as I thought it would be.

Exactly. Like Buckets solo before the bridge in Better. Thats an example of a tasteful shredding solo. Bucket can shred and keep it melodic and emotive. Ron sadly can not do that and its a shame Axl chose Rons solos over Buckets on any song.

Buckets solo before the bridge is out and out shredding, hardly what I would describe as melodious tasteful guitar playing. And since when has tasteful been such an important thing in rock music? The entire last minute of Paradise City is full on shredding. You could listen to it a hundred times over and still not be able to hum that solo back.

Ron is perfectly capable of tasteful shredding. His lead work in Catcher In The Rye is one of the best moments on the entire album, particularly during the outro.

Agree with Towlie on this on all points; Better, PC & CitR. I really dislike CitR as a song, but Rons solo is one of the high points for me in it. I get trashed for this a lot but I also like Rons Scraped solo better than Buckets too.

(Bucket does do stuff like I like on Chinese btw)

Ron's guitar tone on the CITR solo might be the absolute ugliest guitar tone I've ever heard in my life. The solo is also horrific compared to Brian May's beautiful and melodic guitar work that should've been left untouched. Catcher' probably could've been a huge radio hit in its original form, but Ron simply destroys it.

Why should it remain untouched? Just because its Brian May? I actually thought the original solo on Catcher was pretty unremarkable and pedestrian but some of you just have a boner for it because of who it was played by.

It should remain untouched because Ron didn't improve upon May's original solo and made a horrific mess of the solo section of the song. I feel like Brando in Apocalypse Now just thinking about if Ron had been allowed to "improve" Buckethead's TWAT solo

Exactly. Like Buckets solo before the bridge in Better. Thats an example of a tasteful shredding solo. Bucket can shred and keep it melodic and emotive. Ron sadly can not do that and its a shame Axl chose Rons solos over Buckets on any song.

Buckets solo before the bridge is out and out shredding, hardly what I would describe as melodious tasteful guitar playing. And since when has tasteful been such an important thing in rock music? The entire last minute of Paradise City is full on shredding. You could listen to it a hundred times over and still not be able to hum that solo back.

Ron is perfectly capable of tasteful shredding. His lead work in Catcher In The Rye is one of the best moments on the entire album, particularly during the outro.

Agree with Towlie on this on all points; Better, PC & CitR. I really dislike CitR as a song, but Rons solo is one of the high points for me in it. I get trashed for this a lot but I also like Rons Scraped solo better than Buckets too.

(Bucket does do stuff like I like on Chinese btw)

Ron's guitar tone on the CITR solo might be the absolute ugliest guitar tone I've ever heard in my life. The solo is also horrific compared to Brian May's beautiful and melodic guitar work that should've been left untouched. Catcher' probably could've been a huge radio hit in its original form, but Ron simply destroys it.

My Steelers really need to explore the QB market as Landry Jones is horrific.

Speaking of the NFC South, I can't wait to see Jameis Winston fall flat on his face.

this guy to me is almost a guaranteed bust and i rarely say that about anyone.

Yep. I have the exact same feeling (and I rarely have that feeling).

Do you guys see Robert Griffin III having a successful season?

I'm thinking..

Giants

Seahawks

Packers

Saints

WC: Cardinals, Lions

Patriots

Broncos

Steelers

Colts

WC: Ravens, Dolphins

Patrick Kane being investigated for rape

Irrational Man - Joaquin Phoenix delivers the goods as usual as a burnt out philosophy professor desperately looking for something to provide meaning to his life while juggling an affair with a student and a colleague. The Rhode Island scenery was quite beautiful and reminds me of the Canadian east coast quite a bit.

I found it incredibly disappointing compared to the awesomeness of Ghost Protocol. We already saw the opening action scene in the trailer, and then it's a good hour of bad dialogue and acting until the film finally picks up again in Morocco. Rebecca Ferguson's character also wasn't nearly as interesting as Paula Patton's.

Disagree strongly with all of this. Ferguson was way better than Patton, and I thought the movie had a totally relentless energy. A good hour of bad dialogue and acting? What the hell were you watching? Did you miss the entire Vienna Opera House sequence?

It wasn't a masterpiece or anything but it was a solidly-constructed, nonstop thrill ride (not to sound like Earl Dittman or anything) and I can't imagine anyone saying they felt it was slow or boring, of all things.

Yes, the good hour of bad dialogue and acting from Renner and Baldwin. I feel badly for Renner being completely neutered in this film and left to do literally nothing but stand around and look busy in a suit. The opera scene did not live up to online hype for me and seemed devoid of dramatic tension unlike the set pieces of the other flicks in the series. Now that I think about it, this film also lacked the humor of the earlier films and had easily the worst villain in the series thus far.

This better not suck.

Could be dope..

I found it incredibly disappointing compared to the awesomeness of Ghost Protocol. We already saw the opening action scene in the trailer, and then it's a good hour of bad dialogue and acting until the film finally picks up again in Morocco. Rebecca Ferguson's character also wasn't nearly as interesting as Paula Patton's.

He didn't fit GNR. He butchered the old material which is 90% of the setlist.

I don't see what is great about his contributions to CD either.

He is better than Ashba which doesn't say much.

I'll acknowledge that he is better in a band that suits his style, that being NIN.

This pretty much sums it up for me as well. His old material lead work was just terrible live...and a lot of people talk about his awesome CD contributions but I can't name one memorable riff or guitar melody on that album. His solo in Better is...ok, and that about all the praise I could give him.

Well, he also has memorable solos on the title-track, SoD, TWAT, I.R.S. and This I Love. I don't really understand all the comments about how he "butchered" the old material. While he struggled at times with the November Rain solos, he never was flat-out incapable of playing the material the way Dj was with This I Love, or supposedly Riad'.

His playing on these solos is just as good as pretty much any of Slash's performances from the UYI tour to my ears and eyes:

Perhaps we might end up with the bizarre situation of current GNR disbanded, an release featuring Bucket and Finck then the album tracks being played live a couple of years later as part of a reunion tour with the Appetite/illusions line up. Now that would be a big head fuck for the fans!

Duff can already give the other guys pointers on how to play the Chinese Democracy material

We'll hear something by 2017 at the earliest.

I'd love to see This I Love performed properly at least once in my lifetime, plus he probably knows how to play Riad which Dj said was too hard for him.

There are plenty of good rock bands out there.

Name some, I seriously need new music. Everything I listen to is from the 2000's or older (no bands release any hard rock music (with the exception of foo fighters last album) or at least none that are popular enough to get recognized)

Man of steel was NOT a good movie. Honestly I feel it is a downright awful film, like Superman 3 and 4 bad. I know people like to defend it, but I think that is their fanboyisms coming out, because if you look at it objectivly, it's really a bad movie. Its long, boring, and none of the characters are really interesting. The guy that plays superman is boring as hell, Christopher reevs had 10x the karisma that the current guy has.

I'm not saying this just to bash on superman, because I've tried and tried to like that movie, I really have. I have watched it at least 5 times, including at the theater when it came out. I honestly fell asleep in the theater watching it. So I have tried to give it a fair chance over and over again, but I have finally seen the light, it's just a bad movie, period.

Having said that, I am very much looking forward to this next film, so I am not letting the bad taste that man of steel left in my mouth ruin my dinner.

Rewatched Man of Steel last week and pretty much agree with this

Do you guys like the Superman Returns flick with Kevin Spacey better than Man of Steel, or are they equally shite?

Leo never disappoints, this will be epic.

Not since The Beach

Won tickets to see these guys play on a boat in 2 weeks:

I'd be down for a Finck n' Bucket' reunion.

Jackie Brown - Completely forgot how brilliant this film was. The casting, script, music, everything is perfect.

Well, it was definitely better than Salvation but that's not saying a whole lot. I guess I'd be inclined to rank it close to T3 if it had a huge, drawn-out action scene like the car chase through downtown LA near the beginning of T3. The casting of Jason Clarke as John Connor was also better than T3, I found.

I'll wait for $4 Tuesday at the cinema to see it.

I don't get what people see in this guy, never did.

Platoon and Wall Street were pretty sweet films.